Nature can be trusted to work her own miracle in the heart of any man whose daily task keeps him alone among her sights, sounds and silences.

In the economy of nature nothing is ever lost. I cannot belive that the soul of man shall prove the one exception

When any man accumulates more than he can earn with his own hands, he begins to enrich himself at the expense of the youth, the sweat, the blood, the joy of his fellow men.

We never know the timber of a man's soul until something cuts into him deeply and brings the grain out strong. You've the making of a mighty fine piece of furniture.

It really seems as if failure and hardship make more of a human being of folks than success.

I do not believe there is any one study that can be taken up that will broaden the imagination, that will be the source from which will spring more deep thinking and sincere research than the study of astronomy.

The wages of sin are the hardest debts on earth to pay, and they are always collected at inconvenient times and unexpected places.